Maserati Biturbo

The Maserati Biturbo is a family of executive grand tourers that Maserati produced between 1981 and 1994. The original Biturbo was a two-door, four-seater notchback coupe, somewhat smaller than the BMW 3 Series of its day, with a two-litre V6 engine that, as the name says, had two turbochargers, and it was the first production car to use a twin-turbocharged engine. Pierangelo Andreani designed it, and Alejandro de Tomaso, who bought Maserati in 1976, wanted it as a more affordable sports car to replace the pricey Bora and Khamsin. It sold about 40,000 units at first, then gained a reputation for poor quality and overheating until fuel injection arrived. Marcello Gandini restyled the range between 1987 and 1989 and again in 1991, the Biturbo name gave way to 222 in 1988, and the Biturbo platform underlay Maserati models until 1997, including the Shamal and the fourth-generation Quattroporte.